The vineyards around Newberg are greening up fast! I love seeing all those neat rows making their way up and down the hills:

These are from the Dundee Hills Winery, only one of Yamhill County's 80 wineries and 200 vineyards – the largest concentration of wine growers and producers in any county in Oregon!

        

This vineyard is the turning-around-point of one of my walks I take through the neighborhood .. I can think of worse places to walk!

Besides the vines there are also huge fields of grass and wildflowers at the moment:
                                                                               

Apparently Oregon is the grass seed capital of the world (!) and supplies approximately 75% of all of the grass seed produced. It so happens that this area is a big producer of Rye-grass, Fescue and Blue-grass.
'Nother thing learned!

On said walk, just after some rain, I caught this Turkey Vulture, trying to dry his enormous wings ..

                    

Big wings to dry indeed!

Let's see, what else did we do? Oh, yeah, we covered the blueberry bushes in Doug's yard with netting. 

The berries have set and are getting ready to color and ripen ... cue in the birds, who have been keeping their eyes on them too!
Hopefully this way we'll get our fair share of them.

Not a moment too early, because the very next day, after some good rain and a day of sunshine, I harvested the first two cups!
Amazing how that happened almost overnight!

And the berries are not the only things growing almost overnight .. we have an abundance of leaf-lettuces and spinach!

I get such a kick out of that garden! It's my favorite place to sit and have a cup of coffee in the morning (also because the sun hits there first). It's like watching the grass, or in this case veggies, grow!